Mont St Michel

Title: Mont St Michel, Normandy

This painting has a luminosity that is further enhanced by the hand painted green border. Goodwin had a dislike for plain white or gold mounts and bright frames. The work in the Maidstone collection, which was framed in his lifetime, features predominantly hand painted mounts and carved wooden gilded frames or darker gold and black composition frames.

In essence, Goodwin’s paintings capture and translate to the viewer the transient qualities of nature and the romantic itty memories of a place in a form of painted ‘poetical fiction’.